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Now You Can GO GREEN with Metro Free Checking

Make a smart choice by opening a Metro Free checking account and using our electronic services

Metro Free checking is Metro Green checking when you take advantage of our free electronic services, including Debit MasterCard^®, online bill pay, e-statements and direct deposit. It's the convenient, eco-friendly way to manage your money.

More friendly to the environment

By paying your bills online and using services like direct deposit and e-statements, you reduce both paper waste and fuel consumption (since trucks and planes carry mail and paper checks around the country). According to Javelin Strategy & Research, if every American household stopped receiving paper bills and statements, 687,000 tons of paper would be saved every year — enough to circle the Earth 239 times.

More convenient with online banking

We know you're busy, and you don't always have time to take care of business during so-called banker's hours. Thanks to our free electronic services, we're open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Can't get to the credit union on payday? Thanks to direct deposit, your check is already in your account. Need to check your balance? Log on to MetroWeb before you leave the office. Have a bill to pay? Sign on to MetroWeb Bill Pay after the kids go to bed.

More green for your pocketbook

Metro Free checking is just that ... free. There's no minimum balance requirement, no monthly service fee and no per-check fees. And you can add as many convenient electronic services as you want at no extra charge, including:

• Free Debit MasterCard
• Free online banking and bill pay
• Free direct deposit
• Free overdraft transfers from savings
• Free check safekeeping with check images available online
• Free e-statements

Open an account, get a free gift

It's easy, earth-friendly banking at Columbus Metro. To open your Metro Free checking account — and receive your eco-friendly free gift — visit any of our offices or click here for an application.

$25 minimum deposit required to open checking account. Members with a Chex Systems record do not qualify for Metro Free checking and will be offered a Metro Merit account instead. Free gift available to members without an existing Metro checking account. Offer valid through 07/31/09 or while supplies last.

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